Golf club



June 12, 1923.

G. WEAGER ET AL.

GOLF CLUB Filed July 10 1920 M/VLC'AITORS, George eager q ioym,

Patented June 12, 1923.

Least-t entree srarasyearsm OFFICE,

GEORGE WEAGER AND BOY "WHITE, OF MALVEBN LINK, ENGLAND.

GOLF CLUB.

Application filed July 10, 1920. Seria1 1 To.'395,327.

(GRANTED UNDER THE rnovisions or ran acct or MARCH s, 1921, 41 5mm. L., 1313.

T0 alt whom it may concern: 1

Be it known that we, GnononJWmcnR and ROY WHITE, subjects of His 'Majesty the King of England, and residents ofldalvern Link, in the county of Norcesterand Kingdom of England, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Golf Clubs (for which we have filed application in England, October 9, 1913, No. 22,777), of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in golf clubs.

"The invention refers to the'kind of golf clubs in which it has been proposed to secure a metal sole plate to the sole of the head of a club and a metal face plate to the driving or striking face ofsaid club, said plates belng formed integrally with one an-' other, sunk or let into the wood or other material of the club head, fastened in place by means of screws and shaped to the sole and driving face of the club head. In such devices it has been proposed to provide a sole plate secured to and covering thewhole of the sole of a club head, saidplate having a thin rounded portion formed on its front edge which extends upwardly and outwardly around the rounded front lower edge of the head and partly up the driving face of same.

According to the present invention a sole plate is secured on the sole of a club head to cover the whole of said sole, and is formed with an integral thick upstanding straight rib or lug on its front edge, which rib or lug is positioned at and sunk into the sharp lower front driving or striking edge of the club head and extends partly up the driving or striking face of said head. In some cases a face platemay be formed integrally with the sole plate and rib forsecuring. to and covering the driving face of the club head;

The invention is hereinafter describe with reference to the accompanyingdrawings, in wh1ch:-

Figure l is a plan of one form of the improved device adapted for fitting on agolt club;

in position, and

Figure 2 is an elevation showing the device Figure 3 is, a central transversesectional.

detailview of Figure 2;

A sole plate a is fitted on the sole F) ofthe wooden club head 1c, which plate is secured by screws, and is of sufiicient size to, cover the whole of said sole. An upstanding straight comparatively thick rib 'or'lug d is formedintegrally on the front edge ofthe sole plate a so as to lie in'the sharp front lower driving or striking'edge e of the club v head and to extend partly up the driving face 7 of the head, and is preferably formed suitable metal, and'in the construction shown the plates a and h are formed of the same thickness throughout and are about 1/l2th of an inch thick, the object being to make them as l1ght as possible so as'to avoid lessening the weight of lead usually fitted in backs of wooden club heads. 1

formed inte 'rally -with I The drawings show the invention" applied I to brassie but it will be understood thatv it is also applicable to other forms of golf clubs such as drivers? The sharp strengthened edge e of the head enables the same to cut through grass very'readilya What we' claim is L l. Agolf club head having a sole plate,

face plate integral therewith, and an intel gral reinforcing rib extending along the inside of the edge formed by the two plates.

2. A golf club, as set forthin claim '1, in which the cross sectional area of the rib decreasesfrom its middletoward either end.

In testimony whereof we have hereunto signed our names GEORGE war-tone. ROY WHITE. 

